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Re: The Inauguration

Originally Posted by palemale

What I found particularly poignant about President Obama's mention of Stonewall is that he mentioned in the same context as the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Rights Movement. The exact quote is as follows:

By putting the struggle for gay rights on the same footing as that for racial and gender equality, President Obama has created history. Perhaps it is a not so subtle indication to the conservatives on the Supreme Court that they risk historical opprobrium if they uphold DOMA and strike down marriage equality. It was huge, and certainly shows where the president's head and heart is at.

It does for this moment, but what about later?

His previous stance (before the last election) was anti-gay rights, was it not?

Right now he has about five appointees with backgrounds in the Muslim brotherhood in his administration, and has just awarded Egypt's Muslim brotherhood with four F-16s. So his affinities with the Muslim Brotherhood are being given concrete form. Is there, as the right has been alleging, an ideological affinity with that group? If so, what about that's group views on gays -- Similar or not to Obama's?

Re: The Inauguration

Presidents never write their own speeches, but they have full control over the writing, and have to approve the final result. They are also directly responsible for hiring the person who writes it. Any speech Obama gives is as much his, as is humanly possible for someone who is at the top of the United States.

That we are capable only of being what we are, remains our unforgivable sin.
- Gene Wolfe

Re: The Inauguration

Originally Posted by Jack Springer

Everything was done yesterday like it was official. Millions of dollars evaporating into the cold.

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Was it all fake? LOL

History reveals the same comment applies to your beloved former President/Vice-President's "evidence of weapons of mass destruction" for the Iraq war. However, in that case, not only did money "evaporate", so unfortunately did the lives of so many people. And for what? A war based on faked-up lies.